For your information, I am a Chemical Engineer with long years of service in India and abroad and editor of a monthly journal Nandini Voice For The Deprived (www.nandinivoice.org) dedicated to the cause of deprived persons and probity in public life. I did contest in the 2009 Parliamentary election from South Chennai constituency. This constituency has large segment of voters with good literacy. I contested without money power and muscle power and openly declared that my total election expense would be only Rs. 3 lakhs and I strictly adhered to this. Local media gave me reasonably good publicity and highlighted my community service particularly to differently abled persons and others. I lost the election badly and lost my deposit.
The obvious solution is to prevent the corrupt persons and criminals from contesting the elections . The Chief Election Commissioner has correctly said recently that those against whom criminal charges have been admitted in the court for hearing should not be allowed to contest the elections. By this logic, only those persons will be prevented from contesting against whom there would be prima facie case and court would admit the case for hearing. This is a democratic procedure.
N.S.Venkataraman
Nandini Voice For The Deprived
Email:- nsvenkatchennai@gmail.com
The present situation in politics is such because the intellectual do not take part in election but only discuss. That's why they are being ruled by their inferiors.Until and unless a man is proved anti social, he can fight election even from a Jail. That's his birth right as per democracy. No ECI can debar whom you think as anti social. It needs to be proved and judgement given against them.What is needed that you generate a public opinion against them and see that they are defeated in election. For that you have to take active part in Election.
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:07 PM, Vidyut Kale <wide.aware@gmail.com> wrote:
This ought to be of relevance to our interest.The 'counter-affidavit' submitted by the Union government to the Supreme Court in the Ashok Chavan case is a scandal. Simply put, it argues that the Election Commission of India has no power to disqualify a candidate on the basis of his or her poll expenditure accounts, even if those have been falsified. It holds that the ECI's power to disqualify a candidate "arises only in the event of failure to lodge an account of expenses and not for any other reason…" The government is, in the process, calling for a radical and dangerous change in the way polls are conducted in India. If there is one issue on which there is a consensus in the country, it is on the damage inflicted on free and fair elections by the unbridled rise of money power. Now the government argues that the "correctness or otherwise" of the accounts is no concern of the body that conducts and regulates elections. The United Progressive Alliance government is behaving with the ECI the way it has with the Comptroller & Auditor General. It is trying to bat its way out of ugly scams and scandals by seeking to curb the independence of these constitutional bodies. This is dangerous for accountability and for democracy, given the signal role assigned to the Election Commission in our political system.
Background story:228) Is the 'Era of Ashok' a new era for 'news' P
(online breaking news Nov.29, print Nov.30230) 'It is a shame to misguide people' Phttp://beta.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/article69681.ece Dec. 24, 2009online, Dec. 23236) Paid news undermining democracy: Press Council report
http://beta.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/sainath/article407201.ece
http://www.hindu.com/2010/04/22/stories/2010042252351100.htm April 22, 2010
(Beta version appeared April 21, 2010)
245) Private Treaties harm fair, unbiased news: SEBI247) The Empire strikes back -- and how!254) ECI gets tough on electoral abuses252) New ECI division to tackle 'paid news', money power
267) Censorship by pay-to-print293) Paid News claims its price
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/article2559714.ece Oct. 22, 2011
292) And the pay-to-print saga resumes
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/sainath/article2523649.ece Oct. 10, 2011
322) 'Yes, we spent money on paid news ads'
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/yes-we-spent-money-on-paid-news-ads/article4355524.ece Jan. 29, 2013
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Er. Lalit Mohan Pattnaik,
Bhubaneswar, Odisha
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